Jesse James is dead. Dead as a doornail, as Charles Dickens put it about Scrooge’s business partner, Marley (read “A Christmas Carol” sometime). Dickens elaborated a bit saying that he doesn’t know ...

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Jun. 13—GARRETSON, S.D. — In 1876, legendary outlaw Jesse James and his brother Frank were on the run after committing a bank robbery in Northfield, Minnesota. Chased by a posse, the two Missouri ...

Sometimes you have to expose a historical figure for the awful person they were. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun doing it. That’s the approach undertaken by playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and ...

James often relaxed at her house and a rumor circulated that the married James was smitten with her. In time, Bob Ford went on robberies with James. Robert Ford had actually told many people how much ...

Elvis had Col. Tom Parker, an illegal Dutch immigrant who became his manager and mythmaker. Jesse James had John Newman Edwards, a journalist who helped create his enduring folk legend. A bank robber ...

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